On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:54:14AM +0100, "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" wrote: > And there is a reason for the madness: To prevent man in the middle > attacks. Once you've accepted the key, if it ever changes (on a > "normal" system) that could very well indicate a man-in-the-middle > attack. > That makes sense. I guess I was confused with the term fingerprint. I thought in the normal sense a fingerprint is unique and would never change (thinking of human fingerprints). Thanks for clarifying and thanks to others that replied. Amit